REAL 54 - 4/4 - Mentoring for Kingdom Purposes: Patience, Perseverance and GraceBy Bill Niconson & Josimar Salum

4/4 - Mentoring for Kingdom Purposes: Patience, Perseverance and Grace By Bill Niconson & Josimar Salum

Finally, mentoring requires patience, perseverance and grace. 

Patience is required to be able to deal with everything on the way including with the dynamics of discipleship as it deals with living people, unforeseen events, life facts and unprecedented happenings in a real world. 

Transformation is a process that requires a lot of time to be completed. It produces consequences as immediate results of changes that you and nobody basically did not want to go through. People around you will not always react positively to the changes you are experiencing. 

Perseverance is required for both mentor and mentoree in order to finish the mentorship process until the mentoree is able to mentor others in this transformational life process of making disciples of Jesus. We are all being transformed to be like Him.

“Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.” (II Timothy 2:10)

“Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For in just a very little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay. 

But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him." 

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.” (Hebrew 10:32-38)

Mentoring requires Grace and God will gives us more Grace as we humble ourselves acknowledging that we can’t be faithful without His Spirit, we can’t transform ourselves or anybody else unless He does and that we are only His partner in the greatest business of Heaven on Earth which is transforming people like you and me into the Image of Jesus Christ.

“But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." (James 4:6)

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